After travelling from Bangladesh (2000) to Cuenca (2005), the People’s Health Assembly will land in Cape Town South Africa! We look forward welcoming you all from 6 to 11 July 2012 to celebrate the movement and find a way forward in achieving Health For All! You can still register online, or register at the venue in UWC.

After an extensive consultation, many many hours of work, further suggestions and amendments and consultations, etc etc etc. And a lot of hard work by the programme committee pulling it all together! We are happy to share the final programme for PHA

A draft Cape Town Call to Action is available for discussion and adoption at PHA3. The draft will be discussed, debated and enriched in 4 consecutive workshops, between 7-10 July (see schedule and venue of these workshops i the detailed PHA3 programme). The Call to Action will be adopted by the Assembly on 11th July.

The International People’s Health University (IPHU) of the People’s Health Movement (PHM) jointly with the International Budget Partnership (IBP), South Africa and PHM-South Africa announce "THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH" a short training course for young health activists from 25 June to 4 July in Cape Town, South Africa.

A first IPHU in El Salvador took place in La Palma. Entitled “Building Hope: Deepening our Understanding of Health Reform in El Salvador” it provided a somewhat different model for the IPHU. First, it targeted young health professionals working within the Ministry of Health, in health services around the country, professionals active in the process of health reform in El Salvador.

In less than one year, the Third People’s Health Assembly (PHA3) will be taking place in South Africa so it is time to start preparations! Around the world PHM health activists have initiated dialogues and started mobilisation towards PHA3. Regular updates on the mobilisation and preparation will be published in a regular newsletter.

PHM is committed to a stronger WHO, adequately funded, with appropriate powers and owning the leading role in global health governance. PHM follows closely the work of WHO.

30 health activists from over 20 countries have been working through the 64th WHA Agenda with the assistance of high level experts from a number of collaborating networks and NGOs. The following comments on some of the agenda items of the 64th WHA were drafted for your kind consideration.

The WHO is facing a financial crisis: programmes, projects and staffing face the prospect of being disbanded; the dominance of tied donor funding is having a terrible effect on administration. The WHO is also suffering from a crisis of identity and legitimacy; its role and mandate have been diluted and usurped by the proliferation of new actors in the field of global health. Inefficiencies within the organisational processes remain unresolved.

PHM’s Right to Health Commission evaluating the Right to Health and Health Care Campaigns (RTHC) has identified themes that are common among the many campaigns that are under way in 17 PHM circles around the globe. The idea is to channel efforts and provide united global action points to the PHM Right to Health and Health Care Campaigns worldwide.

The International People’s Health University (IPHU) of the People’s Health Movement (PHM) jointly with Human Action for Integrated Development in Senegal (AHDIS) and Forum des Alternatives Maroc (FMAS) announce "THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH" a short training course for young health activists from 30 January to 11 February 2011 in Dakar, Senegal - including participation in the